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Camtasia

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What is Camtasia?

Camtasia is a video editor and screen recorder.


Camtasia offers a range of plans designed to meet varying video creation needs, and enables users to produce professional-looking videos.


Its features include Camtasia Rev, script generation, text-to-speech, translations, and avatar videos, to streamline the video creation process. The editions available are Free, Essentials, Create, or the Pro plan.



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Camtasia is a great product!

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Robin Larrabee
People Development and Experience Manager in Human Resources at Total Expert (201-500 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use Camtasia to create explainer- and walk-through videos. When our product evolves, I train the organization and I find videos are a great tool for this. I also record highlight videos for our customers when we have a new tool or enhancement. Camtasia makes it easy to record and edit videos.

Pros

  • Screen record
  • Edit
  • Annotations

Cons

  • Screen record custom size should be easier

Return on Investment

  • Easy to keep employees trained
  • Can address multiple learning styles

Alternatives Considered

iMovie

Other Software Used

Articulate 360, Allego Sales Enablement Platform

Camtasia- Easy to learn, use, adopt and produce

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Verified User
Consultant in Sales (51-200 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Camtasia is used to curate videos of our products within the business.

The product helps for easy capture of screen content, as well as the recording of audio overtop. Camtasia has great editing features that allow for quick and user friendly production of video content.

This is used throughout the business for:
- marketing content
- sales content
- training content
- software support content

Pros

  • Easy screen recording overlay
  • Great editing tools
  • Multiple production formats available
  • Quick to adopt and understand how to use

Cons

  • Slow and Sluggish to load
  • Increased variety of annotations and other editing options
  • Process in which projects and clips are stored in a folder can be cumbersome. Takes some getting used to understanding how it saves component clips vs the whole project

Return on Investment

  • Increased Opportunites
  • Enhanced the quality of sales opps
  • Increased the adoption time for product learning internally

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Consensus

Camtesia for Creating Effective Tutorials

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Nicolas HanhanView profile
Distance Education Instructional Coordinator in Information Technology at Arizona Western College (201-500 employees employees)

Pros

  • Easy to import video and photos created in other application.
  • Uploading to YouTube is available from within the application.

Cons

  • Rendering takes a long for long videos.

Return on Investment

  • Able to create media files that can be sold to users and result in a return on investment.

Alternatives Considered

Adobe Captivate, Ensemble Video, Adobe Presenter and Adobe Premiere Pro

Other Software Used

Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Acrobat DC, Microsoft Publisher

Get a fantastic video editor with your screen recorder purchase

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Nathan RobertsView profile
Director, Management Information Systems in Information Technology at CareerSource Florida (11-50 employees employees)

Pros

  • Perfect for screen recording and capturing voice.
  • A wealth of included assets (including transitions, animations, intros and outros) reduce production time and increase production value.
  • It's a breeze to add annotations (callouts, arrows, lower thirds) to video.
  • The program's approachable interface hides significant power, so there is a lot of flexibility and features on tap as your needs grow.

Cons

  • Camtasia seems to struggle sometimes with large videos (and I'm on a machine with 32GB RAM), especially with multiple tracks. Sometimes it will freeze when trying to move a track, making it challenging to place it exactly where I want it.
  • There have been a couple of instances where sharing large videos has locked up the program. I didn't lost any work, but I had to restart the process.
  • I wish the audio controls were a little more granular, but that is a minor complaint since the application includes a lot for the price.

Most Important Features

  • Ability to create quick, highly polished tutorials.
  • The included assets are of high production value and easily customizable.
  • Publishing completed videos is a breeze.

Return on Investment

  • We used to source instructional videos. Now we do them in house, saving us time and money. Not only that, they are of higher production value.
  • We have used Camtasia to produce promotional videos in house. These used to be outsourced.
  • We don't have to wait for an outside firm to find capacity to help us with simple video projects, but can now do them on our timeline.
  • Camtasia has surprising power for the price. Again, don't expect Primiere Pro, but understand you may find you can do a lot with this program. We keep finding more and more use-cases for it.

Alternatives Considered

ScreenScape and Movavi Screen Recorder

Other Software Used

Adobe PhotoShop, Microsoft Power BI, Snagit

Camtasia gets the basics done

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Doreen GilesView profile
eLearning Designer / Business Analyst in Information Technology at State of New Jersey (10,001+ employees employees)

Pros

  • Provides a very clean user interface
  • Very good technical support
  • Easy to use editing tools
  • Interfaces well with PowerPoint Addin

Cons

  • Price point is high compared to other video editing tools
  • Would like to see more variety of callout, transitions and fonts.
  • Would like a time estimate for compiling video

Most Important Features

  • Video compilation tool
  • Allows interface with PowerPoint
  • Generating various video formats
  • Voice narration tool

Return on Investment

  • Helps staff to retain new information , reinforcing live training and serves as a refresher tool.
  • Saves on having to commit manpower to training. Allows the trainer to record a live training session and to distribute statewide.
  • Has assisted in improving the image of our organization in providing 24 hour support through our video library.
  • Would love to see more flexibility to add interactive tools such as provided through Articulate/Captivate software.

Alternatives Considered

Snagit, Microsoft Powerpoint, Microsoft Access and SharePoint Designer

Other Software Used

Snagit, MS SharePoint, SharePoint Designer, Adobe Dreamweaver, Zoom, Microsoft Teams

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